George Orwell once wrote: “he who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” In the West today, there can be no clear hallmark of the control that grips parties across the political spectrum and governments across the world than the history which recedes further, every day, into the category of the unmentionable—and, therefore, the forgotten. [...]
Johnny Tzoganakis: NDP MPP Sara Singh (Brampton Centre) has proposed a new bill that seeks to make information about Down syndrome publicly available, especially to expectant parents of children prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome. Bill 225 would amend the Regulated Health Professions Act of 1991 to require public availability of accurate, up-to-date medical information concerning Down syndrome: life expectancy, developmental issues (physical [...]
Gerry Nicholls - Commentary: It’s odd how inanimate objects can sometimes generate animated debates. Consider the passionate arguments currently taking place in various parts of the world over sculptures made of stone or bronze. In the United States, for instance, there were recently emotional battles waged over whether or not to remove statues of Confederate war heroes, while in Britain there’s an ongoing [...]
Paul Tuns The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scrambling to tackle their demographic crisis. On May 31, CCP officials announced at a Politburo meeting that the limit on children would be lifted to three by 2025, a gradual relaxation of the two-child policy implemented in 2016 after ChiComms determined that the one-child policy inaugurated in 1980 and enforced with coercive sterilization and [...]
Anne Hendershott (Crisis Publications, $19 USD, 291 pages) Anne Hendershott’s volume is a much-needed and overdue examination of the cultural and political implications of envy. A culture of covetousness is promoted by advertisers hocking goods and politicians seeking voters, and most of us do not understand that it is one of the deadly sins being evoked when these salesmen are operating. Envy [...]
Paul Tuns - Review Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy Gregory M. Collins (Cambridge, $56.95, 578 pages) Edmund Burke the statesman is best known for something he likely never said: “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” There is no record of the Dublin-born statesman saying it, but it sounds like something he [...]
Paul Tuns - Review What it Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics O. Carter Snead (Harvard, $51.95, 321 pages) The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to the Sexual Revolution Carl R. Trueman (Crossway, $46.99, 432 pages) There were a pair of books published recently that I was surprised were not reviewed [...]
Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World Lila Rose (Thomas Nelson, $33.50, 223 pages) Lila Rose started Live Action as a teenager and has since become one of the most influential pro-lifers in the United States. In her autobiography, Fighting for Life, she not only relates the dramatic stories that have propelled her to become one of [...]
Christina Tuns - Review Mom Genes Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct By Abigail Tucker (Gallery Books, $37, 315 pages) When the book Mom Genes Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct by Abigail Tucker, was given to me my first response was there is no way I am up for or want to read book that is [...]
Rick McGinnis There’s an uncommon moment recalled in Norman Lebrecht’s bitter but celebratory 2007 book The Life and Death of Classical Music where the classical music industry, such as it had existed for just over a century, finally died. It was a dinner in a London restaurant in December of 2004, a small retirement party given for Peter Alward, the head of [...]
The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, A Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having -- or Being Denied -- An Abortion Diana Greene Foster (Scribner, $36, 360 pages) Make no mistake that the landmark “Turnaway Study” -- a data-driven examination of what happens to women who cannot get abortions -- comes from an explicitly pro-abortion point of view. The comparative study of women [...]
Emma Castellino - Review Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson (Random House, $39.95, 432 pages) In the book of Numbers, the Israelites are complaining in the desert, so God sends snakes to bite them. Moses directs them to tie a bronze snake to a post in the middle of their camp. If you are bitten and look at [...]
Russell E. Kuykendall World View Primer A generation or two ago, a broadly shared faith or at least a generally held perspective on how we should then live could be assumed, answering the ancient Greeks’ three ultimate questions, plus one more: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? And, a fourth: Who loves me? Today, answers to [...]
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Grace Olmstead, a native of rural Idaho, now lives in Washington D.C., with her husband and three children. In Uprooted she examines the so-called brain drain in which those who can, leave behind the limited opportunities of home in favour of America’s urban centers. Those left behind in communities like Emmett, Idaho, are increasingly older, while the younger folks struggle to make [...]